<div dir="ltr">I think it makes sense that incubation committee helps evaluate projects (for website, community, incubation) as our members are primarily mentors for open source development teams and are a good position to offer advise and guidance.<div><br></div><div>For the larger picture osgeo community program was setup by the board foster innovation and accept more projects into OSGeo. I think any budget associated with osgeo community program should be allocated by the board with these goals in mind. I do not see a reason for the incubation committee to be involved.</div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 13:45, Tom Kralidis <<a href="mailto:tomkralidis@gmail.com">tomkralidis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">(disclaimer: I am an incubation committee member as well as pygeoapi<br>
founder/dev)<br>
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Having said this, it sounds like workflow is/could be incubation<br>
committee approves<br>
and then board approves?<br>
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Should we add as an agenda item to the next meeting so as to discuss?<br>
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..Tom<br>
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On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 1:02 PM Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> The incubation committee recently got a request to cover the €34 for the new pygeoapi logo, while we have completed a motion to support this here --- I feel I need to pass this request over to the board (as keeper of the community project budget).<br>
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> I hope next year we can be a bit more clear on how community projects are managed.<br>
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> On a related note none of the incubation projects have made an application for funding in 2019. We have seen a number of projects (PROJ and CITE Team Engine) make considerable progress this year.<br>
> --<br>
> Jody Garnett<br>
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